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"I only upload high quality video game rips."

SiIvaGunner is a YouTube channel created as a homage to the original GilvaSunner. Like Gilva, the channel is dedicated to posting video game music—with a twist!
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SilvaGunnernote  was a YouTube channel started in 2008 that uploaded video game music... until it was removed for copyright violations in October 2010. Shortly after, fellow music uploader TimmyTurnersDad created GilvaSunnernote  as a tribute, though after a storied career, it was sadly taken down in 2022. This page isn't about either channel (but you probably knew that).

SiIvaGunnernote  is a collaborative project that publishes remixes of game soundtracks, but mimics the video metadata from the aforementioned GilvaSunner, thus making the videos look like unedited music from various games when they are typically either an "In the Style of" arrangement or Music Mashup involving the game's soundtrack. All with a healthy dosage of Running Gags, many of them being memes (for example 7 GRAND DAD).

SiIvaGunner was started in January 2016 by someone using the moniker "Chaze the Chat", who was inspired by YouTube channels that posed as LittleKuriboh during the height of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' popularity. It was originally known as GiIvaSunnernote  to better impersonate GilvaSunner, but that caused the entire channel to be wiped from YouTube four months into its run, so when moving to the current channel it was rebranded to SiIvaGunner. The new channel also saw a shift to having genuine remixes instead of simple memes, and along with that the kayfabe of posing as GilvaSunner morphed into an actual narrative.

The SiIvaGunner channel continued uploading videos regularly until September 2016 when it was announced that the channel would be ending. However, it would see a special return for Halloween and Christmas that year. The Christmas special in particular featured an episodic series, but the seventh episode fell into Development Hell for four months, which led to the channel being Un-Canceled. SiIvaGunner has continued uploading regularly ever since.

In accordance with the above, the team has decided to sort the channel into seasons:

  • Season 1 covers 2016 up until the Halloween special return.
  • Season 2 began in November 2016 and extends to all of 2017.
  • Season 3 covers 2018 and a bit of 2019.
  • Season 4 covers the remainder of 2019 and all of 2020, the latter being "Episode 2".
  • Season 5 covers 2021 and a bit of 2022.
  • Season 6 covers the remainder of 2022.
  • Season 7 began in February 2023 and ended in January 2024.
  • Season 8 began in the latter half of January 2024 and ended in January 2025.
  • Season 9 began in the latter half of January 2025 and is currently running.

Please note that many examples on this page and in the sub-pages haven't been updated and still refer to the end of Season 1 as the end of the channel.

The collective behind the channel has notably spawned several spinoff collectives:

  • SiIvaGunner Fusion Records (shortened to SGFR as a parody of SBFR/salvation by faith Records), formed out of the more arrangement-based direction of the King for a Day series, is dedicated to remixes and arrangements, and releases their albums through the channel. They have a website here and a Bandcamp here.
  • SG Art Team (supposedly short for Sexy Grandpa Art Team), which handles the (visual) art for big projects on the channel, such as the aforementioned King for a Day. They have helped with non-SiIvaGunner collaborations, and claimed to be unaffiliated with SiIvaGunner prior to 2025. They have a separate YouTube channel here.
  • TimmyTurnersGrandDad and VvvvvaVvvvvvr, two YouTube channels founded by members of SiIvaGunner that publish similar content and have sometimes had significant influence on SiIvaGunner's content and fanbase, though despite the overlap in contributors, they're officially considered Fan Works.

The channel can be viewed here, its Twitter can be found here, and its Bandcamp here. It also has an official site that is used to host links to mods and albums, as well as the King for Another Day MOJO!!; said site doesn't have a proper home page but the link is here.

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    Albums 
Highest Quality Video Game Rips

Other Albums

    SiIvaGunner Fusion Records albums 
Albums
  • SGFR-001 — Halation Celebration ~ 10th Anniversary Tribute to Snow halation: A tribute album full of "Snow halation" remixes for its 10th anniversary (January 1st, 2021)
  • SGFR-002 — Super Star Symphony: A remix album dedicated to remixes from the Kirby series (August 14, 2021)
  • SGFR-003 — Musical Monkey Madness: An album of arrangements of songs from the Super Monkey Ball series, Also released as a GameBanana audio modpack for the PC version of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. (January 09, 2022)
  • SGFR-004 — PSY 9th Arrangements: A remix album of PSY's most recent album at the time, PSY 9th, coinciding with PSY Day 7 (July 19, 2022)
  • SGFR-005 — Tactical Stealth Arrangements: A Metal Gear remix album released as part of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival (December 05, 2022)
  • SGFR-006 — Shovelware from Beyond the Deep!: An album of arrangements from Shovelware, licenced games, and other cheap games that tend to be overlooked or disparaged (June 25, 2023)
  • SGFR-007 — RIP2: An album that remixes rips from throughout the channel's history, as part of the 7th anniversary celebrations during Season 7 (October 07, 2023)
  • SGFR-008 — BOMBERTRACKS: A compilation of remixes based on songs from throughout the Bomberman series (July 09, 2024)
  • SGFR-009 — INSTALLER INSANITY: An album remixing songs used in keygen programs, along with other demoscene music (December 10, 2024)
  • SGFR-010 — The Steam-Powered Melody Machine: An album that arranges music from (or is closely associated with) games made by Valve (March 25, 2025)
  • SGFR-011 — LazyTunes: A compilation of arrangements and remixes of songs from LazyTown, released early into Stingy's second takeover of the channel (June 7, 2025)
  • SGFR-012 — incompetracks: A compilation of arrangements of Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free music tracks, produced as a week-long jam project by the SGFR team (August 13, 2025)
  • SGFR-013 — Mii Plaza Palooza: A compilation of arrangements and remixes of songs from games prominently starring Miis. (August 29, 2025)

Singles

Compilations

Other projects

  • SGFR has a working relationship with the Axolotl Sun, the developers of Regretevator. This is distinct from their other work in that it is the only project directly associated with the production of an original work, rather than being derivative material. While the specifics of their collaboration are not explicitly disclosed, both SGFR and the main channel are credited for assisting with the development of Regretevator's competitive mode, and prior to this served as the host of several joke variants of the game's soundtrack uploaded as regular rips.

I only add high quality trope examples:

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  • 10-Minute Retirement: The most egregious Series Fauxnale. The channel uploaded what seemed to be a genuine goodbye message, stating that the channel was fun while it lasted but that it's time to move on. In addition, all characters were removed from the channel banner, and the channel description was replaced with a single sentence that said "So long, grand cowboy." ...But one hour later, a new rip was uploaded and all the changes to the channel had been reverted. Rips continued like normal afterwards and the goodbye video was never mentioned again.
  • Abandoned Catchphrase: SiIvaGunner's catch phrase is "I only upload high quality video game rips.", but this is almost never referenced on the channel after Season 1. Justified as the In-Universe SiIvaGunner character has been Put on a Bus since Season 1. The phrase is still referenced on the highquality.rip website.
  • Aborted Arc:
    • During the second reboot ARG, The Voice Inside Your Head revealed to Chad Warden/the player in a Pokémon ROM Hack that he didn't actually care about "Snow halation", and instead rebooted the channel to protect it from a greater evil. This plot point doesn't factor into the Voice's motives in the CCC whatsoever, and goes completely unacknowledged for over 8 years until this video from the Susie ARG which reveals that the Voice rebooted the channel because he had premonitions of the Genocide Ending where Chad kills SiIvaGunner, and what he was protecting SiIvaGunner against was actually Chad Warden himself, manipulating the situation in any way he could to prevent this reality.
    • After the Reboot, the channel started a brief storyline about Mr. Rental's (or rather, Mr. Own's) crusade against mashups, until rips on the topic abruptly stopped. The arc was revisited during the Season 1 finale, albeit as a behind-the-scenes look at the series where the creator of the arc explains that he didn't really have an ending planned for it in the first place, and stopped doing videos on it because he didn't feel like making any more, though he also shows a partially-finished video that would've been a proper Wrap It Up finale to the arc if he hadn't been too lazy to finish it, including a major twist that the Mr. Rental from the Mr. Rental: The Video Game rips who hates mashups is actually Mr. Own, and he lives in a completely different universe from the nice Mr. Rental seen in the Looney Tunes rips. Since this ending wasn't finished, the final "Slider" rip which partway through had audio depicting Mr. Rental crashing his car during a police shootout acted as the de facto canon ending, with fans assuming he died. A proper ending to the arc would be made 8 years later as part of the Susie ARG, which finally incorporated the aforementioned twist into an actual canon video.
    • Zig-Zagged in regards to the Christmas Comeback Crisis arc. It was seemingly aborted for Season 3 with SiIvaGunner returning as the host of the channel, but a lot of things hinted he was Not Quite Back to Normal. The Season 3 finale made it clear - the CCC is still going strong, just in a way that makes it look like it isn't (the real SiIvaGunner character is still asleep, but Haltmann created an A.I. that acts just like him which now runs the channel). Still, most channel lore from Season 3 to Season 6 actually takes place in an Alternate Universe that Wood Man visited for fun, so there are only a few bits of lore related to the CCC in the form of occasional Side Stories and Haltmann's Archives during this time. The CCC would properly return in Season 7, with Episode 11 uploading at the end of that season, and later a lore-heavy ARG at the end of Season 8, also directly related to the CCC, which also connected the previous AU directly to the aforementioned A.I. (and, by proxy, Haltmann and the CCC)
    • During the King for Another Day tournament, a minor subplot related to Law & Disorder was the mystery of who assaulted Mr. Bean. After the tournament, it was announced that Law & Disorder's runner-up prize was a visual novel resolving the mystery, complete with a teaser trailer showcasing two brand new rival characters. Two years following the reveal of the project, however, it was announced to be put on indefinite hold, considered cancelled for all intents and purposes. While Law & Disorder would eventually receive their own takeover in August 2025, said takeover featured no acknowledgement of the Mr. Bean mystery in any way, save for a cameo of the aforementioned rivals in the String Theory channel banner.
  • Accidental Pun: The SiIva A.I. was built as part of Project AIRTH (Artificially Intelligent Rip Theatricalizer). The acronym sounds a lot like "Earth", and given that he grows to influence a parallel world with his ripping output to the point where Dr. Andonuts names the reality after him, the potential pun in it ("A.I. Earth") fits that parallel world as well.
  • Adaptation Species Change: Two in the "Shop Fusion Collab":
    • The Trader is (presumably) human: Hollow Knight is entirely focused on bug-like creatures, so the Hollow Knight/Darkwood segment has the Trader as a bug with sap leaking out of him.
    • As humans are long dead in the setting of Splatoon, Cordelia is instead a sea urchin in the Splatoon 3/Dead Estate segment.
  • A.I.-cronym: The A.I.s developed by Project AIRTH, which have the purpose of generating high quality rips similar to SiIvaGunner's, are referred to as "Artificially Intelligent Rip Theatricalizers" or "AIRTHs" for short.
  • Alternate Reality Game:
    • An ARG began on Father's Day, which was shortly after the reboot. It led to an audio file that revealed that more about the reboot. An extended version of the audio file was later uploaded on YouTube. invoked
    • A second Reboot ARG began on July 7th (the day the event was stated to end) which gifted viewers with the ending and the true ending.
    • At the end of 2017, another ARG was held that gifted viewers with "Bad Moon Rising - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis", which itself ended with the announcement that SiIvaGunner would have an album for attendees of MAGFest 2018 (which turned out to be Now That's What I Call Quality!).
    • A fourth ARG, officially known as "The Susie ARG", took place between December 2024-January 2025. This ARG was dedicated to moving the story of the Christmas Comeback Crisis forward, as well as tying up some loose ends regarding various bits of channel lore. The ARG was divided into two "arcs", both centered around a fully-explorable Haltmann Works Co. internal database:
      • "Arc 1" began on December 19, 2024 with a nonsensical nightmare of a SiIva Direct, which at the end played some Morse code that led to the aforementioned internal database. During this arc, mystery-solvers investigated the six directly-accessible folders ("MAXPH", "FOOLS", "BLACK", "AIRTH", and "PAINT", plus a "HELP" folder that had the occasional hint added to it), the first five of which led to new, highly-classified entries in the Haltmann's Archives series, while also expanding upon, clarifying, and tying together many different bits of channel lore along the way. Combining clues taken from the new Haltmann's Archive videos led to a playlist containing the arc's final reward: another new Archives video that revealed Susie Haltmann's status and ended with an fairly-explicit message (later reiterated on the website itself to make it more obvious) that the ARG was on hold for the holidays.
      • After a lengthy break, "Arc 2" began on January 17, 2025 with the premiere of the video "Let's discuss business.", which ended with a hint for the password to "GRAND", the only remaining directly-accessible file. Once unlocked, GRAND turned out to actually be another folder of clues to solve. A secret shitpost folder that manifested during Arc 1, "NOAKA", unexpectedly became relevant to the main ARG at this point, and it later saw the addition of "The Prize" subfolder, which contained some bonus mysteries that led to an additional Haltmann's Archives log, canonizing and ultimately wrapping up the folder's mini-arc. On January 21, the final step of the ARG was completed, and the following night, viewers were rewarded with the finale to Season 8, "The Meeting - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story".
    • "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story", which itself serves as the reward for the RE:SPH ARG's "FOOLS" branch, centers around Reader and Jerome attempting to solve an In-Universe ARG that is a Broad Strokes parody of the branch it serves as the reward for, to the point where even the fictional ARG's reward is also a video that recaps the steps taken during the ARG's solving.
    • In the middle of his takeover in February 2025, a jealous Stingy created his own "Stingy ARG" just to claim it as his own... However, he was only able to come up with three puzzles before giving up, with this short ARG's reward being a couple pieces of lore and a Google Drive containing raw files, concept art, and other behind-the-scenes goodies from the Susie ARG.
  • Alternate Universe:
    • The High Quality Reboot is a Cosmic Retcon by The Voice Inside Your Head to exchange the original SiivaGunner Running Gags for others, thus creating an alternate universe. As The Voice Inside Your Head is effectively a god, he can create more alternate universes as he wishes. He tells Chad Warden about several other possible alternate universes, each containing their own set of Running Gags.
    • On June 17th 2017, a video was uploaded with an alternate version of the reboot's true ending called Genocide ending. In it, Chad kills Snow Halation, the Voice and later SiIva himself, revealing this was his plan all along and taking over the channel. The following day is flooded with rips that mostly include Lego Pornstar's "Abe's Dead" (a.k.a. the 'Chicken and Chips' song), suggested to be the work of this universe's Chad. A day later, a video called '...' is posted, where Wood Man appears and reveals this is just an example of a timeline where Chad is more like his real life self than the idealized version from the reboot. Wood Man then admits he just did this for fun before bringing the viewers back to the main timeline.
    • As revealed in "FILE-INT-PAINT", the Mr. Rental: The Video Game, Waluigi's Tacostand, and Looney Tunes rips are part of their own separate universes, and weren't merely part of a non-canon arc. Waluigi himself originated from the Kirby Fighters universe before being warped into the CCC.
    • The rips of the SiIva A.I. influenced a pocket reality, connected to Haltmann's computer the same way the main universe is connected to SiIvaGunner's. Haltmann's R&D division was surprised to find out that the A.I.'s takeovers weren't the results of him acting up and taking on a persona, but rather relaying information from a world where they actually happened (though with the inhabitants unaware of the worlds beside theirs or what is basically their god). This is also the universe where Wood Man had been staying in until his disappearance.
  • Anonymous Band: This is done to maintain Kayfabe. However, it's Averted in some places:
    • The featured channels list contains several contributors' channels.
    • All of the albums credit the creators appropriately, except in a few cases where placeholders such as "Barney Rubble" or other joke names are used. The albums also reveal the proper "names" for each rip.
    • Many contributors have playlists collecting all of their rips, which is in turn used by the SiIvaGunner Wiki to place the proper credit on most rips.
  • Anti-Frustration Features: The (fan-run, but officially-endorsed) SiIvaGunner Wiki analyses the contents of each listed rip in great detail, including barely noticeable additions or possible references which is especially helpful for rips with more esoteric punchlines.
  • Anti-Humor: Rips with large portions of the song left intact fit this trope, most notably "Dancing Mad (Beta Mix) - Final Fantasy VI", which goes for well over 11 minutes before The Flintstones theme song is heard.
  • April Fools' Day:
    • The second volume of his highest quality rips... which contained 245 copies of Grand Metropolis in .flacnote , with 245 copies of the same image of Kevin Spacey, and a few other images (including an entire folder of Angry Joe pictures) thrown in for good measure.
    • The channel also uploaded the entire soundtrack of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy unedited, followed by three unedited songs that resembled The Flintstones theme song. Then they uploaded "Grand Metropolis" again.
    • The real GilvaSunner uploaded Final Destination.
    • In 2017, the channel and the real GilvaSunner swapped upload schedules (though their content still remained the same).
    • In 2018, the channel started a second Inspector Gadget takeover, now with The Nostalgia Critic.
    • In 2020, the channel ripped songs from other April Fools joke games in lieu of their own gag.
    • In 2021, the channel began a mini-narrative about Mario becoming Ret-Gone as an extended jab to Nintendo's decision to remove the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection on the same day. This is notable for being the only April Fools gag on the channel to be played for drama instead of comedy, as the rips uploaded used songs and covers implying loss or isolation as their "jokes."
    • In 2022, the channel instead released rips referencing Logan Paul, as it was his birthday.
    • In 2023, the channel released a series of Beta Mixes of existing rips, wherein the jokes of existing rips were slightly (or sometimes dramatically) altered, usually to reference the original rip or sometimes other related rips. This at first extended to rips that already had a Mix in the game (leading to things like "(Alpha Mix) (Beta Mix)"), then to rips that already had "(Beta Mix)" in the name, including rips that were already ripped earlier that day. Some rips even recieved multiple revisions with chains of "(Beta Mix)" that broke the video title character limit. This even extended to Beta Mixes of videos that weren't even proper rips to begin with, including album announcement videos, lore videos (including one Haltmann's Archives file that gave some lore on the event itself), and two Christmas Comeback Crisis episodes.
    • In 2024, the channel spent the day parodying music edit trends throughout the history of YouTube, while also making faux appeals to the site's algorithm to spoof channels that do the same for real. The associated playlist is titled "Uploads from SiIvaGunner, But Something's Wrong...."
    • In 2025, SiIvaGunner began posting high quality Fictional Video Game rips, starting with Guardians of Sunshine and including those such as SquisherZ and Oh! That's a Baseball!!, as well as a not-insignificant amount of music from Radio TV Solutions' GameClam press conferences, with the final few rips implying that these were games consumed by the anafabula/SCP-2747.
  • Arc Number: 7, referencing the bootleg Mario/Flintstones game "7 GRAND DAD".
    • On most of Siiva's albums, the number of songs is a multiple of 7. Depending on the album, this count either includes or excludes songs that are only available through downloading the album.
    • The seventh rip of "Grand Metropolis" was the only one edited.
    • To celebrate reaching 7,000 subscribers, Siiva uploaded an edited version of a video that the real GilvaSunner had uploaded to celebrate reaching 150,000 subscribers.
    • Level 1 (Desert Bus) and Beloved Tomboyish Girl (Extended Mix) are both several hours long, and they both feature The Flintstones theme song at the seven hour mark. "Overworld" from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' only runs for nearly eleven minutes, but it features the Flintstones theme song at the seven minute mark.
      • The rip of "Pause Screen" from Wario World (Which was uploaded during the reboot) features The Flintstones theme song at the 7 minute mark, but it quickly begins switching between the theme songs for The Flintstones, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, before moving on to other songs.
      • The rip of "Kakariko Village (Night)" instead features "POKEMON GO SONG!!!" at the 7 hour mark.
    • After releasing his third album, SiIva took a seven day break and returned on June 7th.
    • In this video, Siiva goes to buy new ripping software after the program that he had been using up until that point stops working. What was the name of the old ripping software? "HQripper 7.0"
    • The number seven played a large role in the Fathers Day ARG.
    • The reboot was supposed to end on July 7th (7/7), but the video ending the reboot was immediately taken down, presumably due to issues regarding the video's flashing lights. The reupload had an additional line from The Voice indicating that epileptic viewers might want to look away from the screen.
    • Including the "Behind the Scenes" Mr. Rental video and the Bait-and-Switch final track, there were a total of 7 videos uploaded after the announcement of the channel's ending.
    • There are a total of seven Greatest Hits Albums (one of which is in two parts), though two of them (2 and 5) were jokes.
    • The King for Another Day takeover lasted 7 days, ending on 7/7.
  • Artifact Domination: The Crown in King For Another Day, before the finals between DJ Professor K and Mariya Takeuchi, revealed that it was sentient and wanted the tournament to last forever, taking over Unregistered Hypercam 2 and turning him into Unrestrained Hypercam 2 in an attempt to achieve that goal.
  • Ascended Extra: The Nutshack was only used in around one or two rips during the reboot, but after the reboot ended, the amount of rips using it raised significantly.
  • Ascended Meme: The album SiIvaGunner Presents: Somewhat Responsive to Requests ~ Touhou Album Now! was born from fans requesting for a Touhou Project album, with both the album and the reveal referencing the "2hu album when/there will never be a touhou album" meme.
  • Ass Shove: In "Main Theme (Remastered Version) - New Ghostbusters 2":
    Not Vinesauce Joel: And all of a sudden I find myself in a Haunted House, and I'm surrounded by 8-Bit Beasts! What the fuck? They're trying to shove a giant brick up my ass! Not good. And then I lie down in bed wiping my bloody butt...
  • A Wild Rapper Appears!: "Where The Hood At?" appears in the middle of "GO MY WAY!! (REM@STER-A)" (which is a "Snow halation" mashup until then) before leaving shortly after.
  • Backstory Horror: SiIvaGunner himself is completely harmless Living Statue that just wants to create high quality rips, right? Well, no. According to this piece of lore, SiIva is a Humanoid Abomination from space that once killed a completely innocent person just to steal his computer.
  • Bait-and-Switch: Every single "high quality rip" is actually this (except for a very small number of rips that are unedited). YouTube frowns on this behavior, which likely played a role in the original channel's termination. The channel description has only a small hint to the true nature of the channel, with the insertion of the statement "(All content is willingly submitted by a team of content creators.)" into what is otherwise GilvaSunner's description copied word-for-word. Notable examples within the rips themselves below.
  • Bawdy Song: "Pumpkin Hill (OST Version)" and, to a lesser extent, "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)" replace much of the original lyrics with lewd homoerotic references.
  • Beach Episode: The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival (June 18-September 7, 2020), which encompassed a few special activities/sub-events. The channel banner changed to a beach, with each activity adding a new character to it, wearing appropriate "vacation" attire.
  • Big Bad:
    • The Voice Inside Your Head. In the Reboot storyline, he's the one behind the Continuity Reboot as he believes it will solve the community's Broken Base over "Snow halation"note . In the Christmas Comeback Crisis, he pulled a Hostile Show Takeover and wants to purge all anime despite it being the source for quite a few beloved Running Gags.
    • Double Subverted with President Haltmann, the Corrupt Corporate Executive Big Bad of Kirby: Planet Robobot. He starts as The Dragon to The Voice, but eventually pulls a The Dog Bites Back and takes the SiIvaGunner channel for himself. Compared to The Voice, Haltmann's takeover is actually relatively beneficial for the channel, and he doesn't seem to do anything bad at first. But then, almost a year later it's revealed that he locked the Christmas Comeback Crisis in a sort of "Groundhog Day" Loop so he can profit from the channel indeinitely, which is a problem for anyone with a Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory such as Wood Man.
  • Bilingual Bonus:
    • The name of the album that's themed around Yoko Shimomura's compositions is "il settimo grande padre", literally meaning "The Seventh Grand Father" (AKA "7 Grand Dad") in Italian. Also from the same album is a remix of "Scherzo di Notte" ("Night Joke" in Italian) from Kingdom Hearts I that uses the Family Guy theme song, titled "Scherzo di Momenti Divertenti" ("Funny Moments Joke").
    • In "Captain Murasa - Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object", the last 3 lines of the "log" popup are a Japanese translation of the "you just got beaned" text.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The reboot arc ends with Chad accepting the Voice's offer to merge the universes without "Snow halation".
  • Black Comedy: In spades depending on the rip. The Daft Punk tribute rips make light of the "Epilogue" video announcing their retirement, with the Guyman-Boyfriend blowing up when he loses (much like how Thomas blows up instead), and the following video "Thorns" opens with Thomas-Senpai properly getting destroyed when he loses.
  • Bookends:
    • The last rip before the announcement of the channel endingnote  was of "Battle! (Wild Pokémon)", the same song that the first rip was of.
    • One of the first rips to get popular was the rip of Super Mario 64's "Slider", which was a simple bait-and-switch into the Flintstones theme; it became one of the most re-ripped songs as a result. On the last day of continuous rips, the N64DD version was uploaded as one of the last ones, and started the same way (albeit with Joel's infamous Grand Dad freakout overlayed onto it)... only for it to stop partway through to let just about every other running gag do their own rendition of it.
    • After uploading the "Title Theme - 7 GRAND DAD" Grand Finale rip (as it seemed at the time), SiIvaGunner's profile picture changed to GilvaSunner's original picture of Timmy Turner's dad from 2009.
    • The first of DJ Professor K's songs released in King for a Day was "Artificial Amateurs", composed by Cryptik. The end of his journey and the last song of his takeover (both in broadcast and in release, at least before the Like a Dragon rip) is marked by "Blading These Streets", also composed by Cryptik.
      • His takeover starts with him proudly announcing his radio station and his credentials from winning the tournament. His last appearance for the event has him do much the same, but since the day is technically over he hesitates when describing himself and switches to say he's reading the credits.
    • One of the last rips to be released before Mario was Unpersoned in April Fools' Day was Goodnight Mario - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a short clip that features Mario being rolled by another Mario to fall off. In turn, one of the first rips after Mario was restored was Good Morning Mario - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which is the same clip played backwards.
    • The Shop Fusion Collab loops around to the first song in the mix (the Wii Shop theme), but since the Wii eShop has no mascot, its representative ends up being Drake, referencing the long-running joke of the Wii Shop theme being mashed with "Hotline Bling".
  • Bootstrapped Leitmotif: Snow Halation tends to be associated with Nozomi thanks to Triple-Q having her featured in artwork of his Snow Halation mashups, and her role in the Christmas Comeback Crisis. Thing is, Snow Halation is officially centered around Honoka, as she sings the sole solo line in the song, and is in the center for the last third of the performance. This might have to do with an episode focusing on Nozomi being partially focused on the (in-universe) creation of the song (with an episode including a performance of the song following afterward), and how she appears in the center of the group formation for the first third.
  • Breakout Character: The Nutshack and We Are Number One.
    • The Nutshack, while originally introduced as an intentionally bad running gag to be the "villain" after the Reboot ended, proved popular enough both on and beyond the channel (mostly via "The Nutshack but..." videos) to be kept on as a regular meme on the channel, even being raised to one of the "holy trinity" alongside Grand Dad and Snow Halation.
    • We Are Number One, meanwhile, was a deliberate invokedattempt to create a running gag that would be popular amongst fans after the disastrous Green de la Bean gag. It worked far better than expected: the song became incredibly popular even outside the channel, with "We Are Number One but..." videos rapidly eclipsing their "The Nutshack but..." inspirations in popularity, enough so that when the GoFundMe for Stefán Karl Stefánsson'snote  cancer treatment came to light, it was fully funded in a matter of hours. This earned mainstream media attention, and a thank you message from Stefán in which he - and the actors for the Rottens - sung "We Are Number One" live on stream; in addition, the audio stems for the song were released separately so that it would be easier for fans to "keep memeing". Despite all of that, We Are Number One, at the time, was only a minor meme, until the Christmas Comeback Crisis, when the usage of it skyrocketed, much like The Nutshack before it.
  • Broken Record: A Running Gag that is often used on songs that have easily loopable measures. The track in question will have a singular part of it looped over and over again until the end of the rip, where it continues as normal just before the video ends.
  • Brown Note: The bean robots in the Christmas Comeback Crisis are equipped with speakers that blast "BITCH YOU" and "BRRTESO" at people to disable them.
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • The Vocal Mix of Wolf girl with you's Title Theme features the first true appearance of Loud Nigra since the reboot.
    • Despite "Snow halation" being erased during the merging of the universes in the Normal Ending of the reboot, in the True Ending, it makes its return.
    • Serval during the RE:SPH ARG:
      • The BLACK Branch brings back Genocide Route Chad Warden after the Reboot anniversary event, revealing how he destroy the world and implies that he is "the harbinger" The Voice Inside Your Head is referring to in the second Reboot ARG.
      • The PAINT Branch brings back Mr. Rental and Mr. Own, last seen in 2017. The same branch later brings back 2B after her serval cameos and appearance in The Life and Times of Wade L.D..
      • The AIRTH Branch brings back the SiIva A.I. after CCC 11, revealing the A.I.'s perspective during 2017 to 2022. The same branch also revisits serval major events that took place in the SiIva A.I. Universe, especially the King For A Day Tournament, where the end of the branch reveals a website that reveals the lore of the first tournament. Notably, the website also brings back Etika, who didn't appear in any KFAD-related events post 2018 save for a tribute track in King For Another Day due to his real life self experiencing mental health crisis in 2019 making his inclusion difficult without negatively affecting his well-being.
      • The FOOLS Branch marks the first appearance of Reader and Jerome since their appearances in Season 4.
      • And finally, the end of the ARG reveals the person Susie Haltmann is looking for: Wood Man, who disappeared at the end of Season 6.
  • Bus Crash: After several weeks of absence, Mr. Rental eventually made a return in Slider - Super Mario 64DD, where he is presumably killed during a standoff with the police.
  • Butt-Monkey: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-related rips are often Stylistic Suck (most obvious with the Bloody Stream rips); this got increasingly prevalent as the first season went on, culminating with an entire album full of Stylistic Suck rips as a jab at the people who wanted them. Notably, JoJo songs that are remixed but are under a different series' title (usually with Pokémon games) have been known to be consistently good. Songs that are actually under the series' name (such as from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven), however, are usually bad on purpose. This died down after the first season.
  • Call-Back:
  • Cerebus Syndrome: The Continuity Reboot led to several darker, Sensory Abuse-laden rips - as well as the development of an actual story that ultimately ends with the reveal of an unseen higher power, the merging of two universes, and the seeming death of Chad Warren and the Voice Inside Your Head.
  • Cliffhanger: The OST version rip of "Sins of the Father" was uploaded on the day the parallel universe storyline was supposed to officially come to an end. The last seven seconds of the rip has the video glitching out and cutting to black, with the last thing heard being a familiar voice saying "Let's check it out."
  • Closing Credits: "Curtain Call" from Mother 3 acts as this for the entire channel, crediting every single contributor by name.
  • Coconut Meets Cranium: CG! Coconut gun!
  • Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The Halloween 2024 event mostly consisted of Mothman throwing a party with a bunch of cryptids as silly shenanigans proceeded to ensure. However, there was one unexpectedly dark moment in Mothman's posting, where the aliens attending end up overdosing on Galaxy Gas (a real brand of recreational nitrous oxide) and one of them (named Floob) dies from doing so. In the chaos, Mothman starts legitimately panicking right before he finds out Floob is dead.
  • Compressed Adaptation: The album release of Super Mario 64's "Cave Dungeon (Extended Mix)" retains the Jellyfish Jam ending, but the twelve hour buildup was replaced with the song's original intro.
  • Composite Character: In-Universe. Figments (beings formed from concentrated ideas and motifs) are by definition influenced by all iterations of a character in the public eye, rather than solely any one version. For example, Grand Dad's reference points (in order of importance) are the Mario Palette Swap on the title screen of 7 Grand Dad, the Head Swap from the actual gameplay, the semantically seperate but obviously related character Fortran, and finally regular Mario and Fred Flintstone. This is also a plot point, as Dr. Andonuts is aware of his sources and does not like how one of them contrasts so much with the rest of him. Two of the Guilts in his Magicant also take the form of two of his sources.
  • Content Warnings:
  • Continuity Cavalcade: The RE:SPH ARG is flooded with continuity, with many nods and continuations to previous events and storylines such as SiIvaGunner: Rebooted, King For a Day and even the Mr. Rental saga.
  • Continuity Reboot:
    • It began on June 17th, 2016, when this "Snow halation" video featured the channel "crashing" ala Microsoft Windows. Immediately after, many changes became apparent.
      • The channel icon changed to an odd, anaglyphic version of the normal one.
      • The channel's banner became bereft of Grand Dad and company (Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, and Haruka Amami eventually took their place).
      • His Twitter name had "*reboot*" appended to it.
      • "Please read the channel description" and "I only upload high quality video game rips" became "Read the channel description, please" and "I upload high quality video game rips only".
      • The main Running Gag of the channel went from being The Flintstones to The Simpsons and Family Guy.
    • The reboot ended on July 8th, 2016, when the Voice Inside Your Head's Merged Reality proposal is accepted by Chad Warden, and all the aforementioned changes have reverted to what they were before, with the exception of the channel icon (which became an unaltered photo of the statue of Antinous, the source of the real GilvaSunner's icon) and banner (in which Homer, Peter, and Haruka were gone and Grand Dad was back in the lighthouse, but Nozomi and Loud Nigra were still absent). 24 hours later, Chad brings back Snow Halation himself, and all of the changes are completely reverted, for good (though it took nearly two weeks for Homer, Peter, and Haruka to be added back into the lighthouse to reflect the new status quo).
  • Couch Gag: The line below the credits for the source track and playlist directing viewers to "please read the channel description" has been modified during many a channel event, though individual rips don't normally get unique variant lines.
  • Cover Version: "6 PM - Animal Crossing" is a rendition of "Simoon" by Yellow Magic Orchestra.
  • The Cover Changes the Meaning: Well, the Remix changes the meaning, but the KFAD song, "Thank You, Everybody!" is a mashup of Fragile by Tatsuro Yamashita and "Thank You" by Tyler, the Creator (which happened to sample from the song the previous song). While "Fragile" originally was a sweet song about the singer thanking their lover for how they improved their life, while "Thank You" turned the meaning into the singer thanking their lover but saying that they also broke their heart, "Thank You, Everybody!" uses both songs to create a song that has the singer thanking the listener, especially if you put in the context of the song in the tournament, being one of the last songs to be released before the winner was announced.
  • Creepy Circus Music: "Mad Jack Battle (Beta Mix)" combines the frantic brass and strings of Mad Jack's battle theme with the equally frantic melody of "The World Revolving." Mad Jack's creepy laugh is heard multiple times throughout the video to add to the effect.
  • Crown of Power: The crown in the "King for Another Day Tournament" video possesses Unregistered Hypercam 2 near the end of the tournament to turn the wearer into Unrestrained Hypercam 2.
  • Cultural Cross-Reference: The channel frequently throws jokes in some rips that only foreigners may understand, especially Brazilian ones. In around September 6th to September 7th, the channel celebrated the Independence Day of Brazil in 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: From the first tournament, the biggest landslide was Reggie Fils-Aimé vs. Thanos 75.4%-24.6% in Reggie's favor. The second tournament somehow managed to top it with the biggest landslide in both tournaments with MissingNo. vs. HOBaRT 78.1%-21.9% in MissingNo.'s favor.
  • Darker and Edgier:
    • Rips on the Flustered Fernando side-channel lean heavily in this direction, as the entire point of the channel was to upload/re-upload rips that couldn't be left on the main channel for fear of alienating viewers and being flagged. These include all of the bean rips, all of the 9/11 rips, a series of rips "celebrating" the 10-year anniversary of the Michael Richards Laugh Factory incident, the infamous Pupa scene, and an unaltered, HD version of the I Love Egg song.
    • Within the channel itself, the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival in 2022 managed to be this compared to the other All-Star Festivals with themes of finality and the apocalypse, and even contains a storyline which reveals that the world is plunged into the titular nuclear winter caused by an unknown meteorite. The event culminates with the permanent shutdown of the SiIva A.I. and Wood Man leaving the channel, breaking the status quo.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Every so often, the channel will upload a lot of rips focusing on one joke or source, usually on a relevant anniversary or date; see MeaningfulReleaseDate.Si Iva Gunner.
  • Deader than Dead: In the King for a Day tournament, Ajit Pai is treated as this after losing to Thanos, who inflicted Cessation of Existence on Pai's stock icon in his victory screen. Pai doesn't even show up for the final character shot.
  • Death Montage: "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story" features a montage of Reader and Jerome devising several unique methods to kill Naxx Guyfieri, who they incorrectly believe is attempting to harm them, after he comes back every 3 days after his previous death.
  • Department of Redundancy Department:
    • The album title for "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version) - Sonic Adventure" is "Knuckles from K.N.U.C.K.L.E.S. & Knuckles: Knuckles in Knuckles the Echidna feat. Knuckles from the Knuckles the Echidna Series [Knuckles of the Year Edition] & Knuckles (Full Version & Knuckles)."
    • While it was usually avoided in the earlier seasons, due to the limited amount of realistic versions a video game track is likely to have, ones that get ripped several times (but not to the point where the channel gives up naming them realistically at all) will tend to use reworded versions of the same thing, e.g. having one rip titled Beta Mix and another title Beta Version. "Game With Rabbit" from Othello World is probably the worst offender, with it recieving 9 rips subtitled with some varation of Beta before finally getting another subtitle.
  • Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Main Theme - Sony E3 Conference 2016 and Main Theme - Nintendo Direct 9.1.2016 both use the same clip of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with Will's dialogue edited to ask "Where the Vita games?"/"Where the Wii U games?" A memorial for the console then appears (complete with somber Undertale music), but in the latter rip, SiIvaGunner faintly says "Wait a second, didn't we already make this joke before?"
  • Double Subversion:
  • The Dragon: Woodman works for the voice, and keeping the Voice alive is why he hijacked the channel.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Easter Egg:
  • Either/Or Title: The 2024 ARG is referred to by two titles, according to "The Meeting": The Susie ARG (its main title, albeit spoilery) or the RE:SPH ARG.
  • The Elevator from Ipanema: "The Smol from Tokyo," which accompanies the elevator ride to Floor 77 in CCC Episode 11, is a remix of "The Girl from Ipanema." (The vocals are taken from "5PM (OST Version)" from Animal Crossing: New Leaf, one of several SiIvaGunner rips based on this tune.)
  • The Ending Changes Everything: Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game reveals that the Mr. Rental seen in the main Mr. Rental rips was actually an Evil Twin, Mr. Own, while the Mr. Rental seen in the Looney Tunes title theme rips was the real one, who was Good All Along.
  • End-of-Series Awareness: "Staff Credits" from Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (posted the day before the channel's end) says "Finally, the time has come, it's the last r-r-rip with a Coconut Gun."
  • Exact Words: Some uploads will give you what the song's title describes.
  • Evil Overlooker: On July 21st, 2016, fans have noticed the YouTube channel art was updated to feature a very, very faint image of the head of Tito Dick (one of the stars of the infamous cartoon show The Nutshack, the theme song of which having risen to prominence in the channels video game rips since the end of the reboot). Since then, Dick's head had become a bit clearer. Throughout the month of August 2016, Tito Dick's opacity would fluctuate randomly ranging from almost invisible, to very visible, until the tower disappeared at the end of the month.
  • Fade to Black: The merging of the universes ends with a clip of Honoka from the music video for "Snow halation" fading away.
  • Fandom Nod: Deliberately invoked in the lore. The team is very aware what the fans think of each Running Gag. For example, the reboot was caused by the SiIvaGunner fandom's extreme hate towards "Snow halation", represented by the channel crashing because of a problem with the file "HALATION.SYS" which was caused by "COMMUNITY_DISCOURSE". During later videos, The Voice Inside Your Head makes nods to the various shenanigans that occurred throughout the reboot videos' comment sections, such as the "Dedede Squad". The Christmas Comeback Crisis videos go even further with this, for example turning Green de la Bean, a meme the fans absolutely hated, into an antagonist.
  • Fake-Out Fade-Out: The "Treasure Chest Open" rip from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword employs this.
  • Fake-Out Opening:
    • Some videos start out as being presented as just a still image of the game's title (just like the majority of the rips), only to switch over to an actual video at one (often early) point.
    • The "Be Cool, Be Wild, and Be Groovy" rip from Sonic Adventure appears to be yet another "Snow halation" mashup, only for Dr. Eggman to put an abrupt end to it. The real mashup is of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet, with interjections from Eggman and Big the Cat. This was later followed up with the 20th Anniversary version, in which Eggman references the original and allows Snow halation to proceed. It ends, however, with Jack dedicating the video to Tito Dick, followed by The Nutshack theme playing over a panicking Eggman.
  • Fictional Video Game: Rarely there has been rips of non-existent games including Zeno Blade Chronicle X, a pirate version of Xenoblade Chronicles X and Half-Zombie in the Steel Stronghold, which has only one song for it.
    • The 2025 April Fool's event is entirely focused around in-universe video games.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing:
    • In CCC Episode 11, the music that plays when Nozomi fights the SiIva A.I. quotes "Ash and Dust", an ambient track from the album of the All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival. As the end of the event is implied to be when The A.I. shuts down, it's no surprise that the song that plays over the second half quotes "Goodbye to a World", a song whose fusion collab in the event ends with his shutdown sequence just like the end of the fight.
    • The last song uploaded before the start of the Gegagedigedagidago event was "A Long Time Ago... - Robotrek", which matches with the lyrics of the meme's associated song, "Cotton Eye Joe" ("If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe/I'd been married a long time ago").
  • Forced Meme:
    • According to Chad Warden, The Flintstones theme was one from the beginning, and this poorly-made description of the meme's origin supports his claim.
    • "Snow halation." The vast majority of other Running Gags originate from places other than the channel, but "Snow halation" as a meme originates entirely from being prominent contributor Triple-Q's favorite song from Love Live! and pushing it alongside the other prominent running gags.
    • The theme song to The Nutshack, after being featured in the ARG, has been introduced as another forced meme. It has been received relatively better than "Snow Halation", although some still don't like the effort of trying to meme something else.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • The Mii Maker rip (a video of someone searching for a Peter Griffin Mii tutorial, and subsequently making one of Fred Flintstone) rather eerily parallels the Continuity Reboot.
    • There are two main clues concerning The Reveal that the Serial Killer Mr. Rental from his own rips is a different person than the Nice Guy Mr. Rental from the Looney Tunes rips: a moment where the former, actually Mr. Own, buys a phone, and the fact that their car is crudely rendered in MS Paint (sticking out like a sore thumb in the generally angular art style used in the Looney Tunes rips).
    • An image included with ''Volume 7'' depicts an upside-down triangle with a small purple circle in the center. Wood Man's final farewell on Twitter has a portrait of someone with that same triangle for a head in the upper-left. The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis reveals that person to be the physical form of the Voice Inside Your Head.
    • What about the sudden mass liking of Minecraft things, only for Inspector Gadget to take over 7 months later?
    • During 2024's Spirit Week event, Twin Day was represented by a picture of two Joke-Explainer™ 7000s. The RE:SPH ARG revealed that Dr. Andonuts had built a replica of the Joke-Explainer™, which was the one that was transported to the A.I. universe and experienced the 2019 Halloween event and the All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • Fully Automatic Clip Show: "...of 2017 (Beta Mix)" and "MEGALOVANIA (Chex Mix) (Beta Mix) - Undertale", both uploaded during the 2023 April Fools' Day event, are remixes of announcement videos mostly edited down to Chaze the Chat saying "uhm" repeatedly.
  • Gag Censor:
    • In the album art for Volume 3 & Knigra, GilvaSunner's avatar is covered by the Fred Flintstone star and Loud Nigra is covered by the GilvaSunner Seal of Quality.
    • This rip of "Skydeck a Go!Go!" (a mashup with "Bonfire" by Childish Gambino) censors all of the latter song's obscenities with various Sonic sound effects.
    • The rip of "Beloved Tomboyish Girl" features the infamous "Russian Dongcopter" video and uses Tito Dick's head as a censor.
    • The YouTube and "SFW" Newgrounds versions of "This announcement is not on YouTube." (AKA "7 GRAND AWESOME"), a video which goes through the plot of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy and ends with the Great Gazoo spinning his meat for thirty seconds, censors the meatspin with a black censor bar reading "V E R Y CENSORED[.] Seriously, you don't wanna see this." Completely averted in the NSFW Newgrounds version, where "the Great Gazoo's Great Gherkin" is visible for all to see.
  • A Glitch in the Matrix: The OST Version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2's 2-Player Emerald Hill Zone theme uses this knockoff of the Super Mario Bros. 1 Theme Tune, playing into the "Mario Dies After March 31st 2021" event that was going on at the time. After the first loop, the real SMB theme periodically starts playing instead, only for the audio to immediately glitch out for a split second before resuming with the knockoff.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: The SiIva Direct stream for July 11th, 2016. SiIvaGunner hypes up a brand new high quality rip, only for it to end up being delayed. He then tries to make up for it by playing footage of a live concert performance of "Snow Halation", but this causes the entire stream to be blocked by Lantis, the record label of the Love Live franchise.
  • Grandfather Clause:
    • The Flintstones (no pun intended). The theme appeared in SiIvaGunner's debut video and went on to be the channel's most frequent recurring joke ever, but it has been met with virtually no resistance from the fans or the team even after several years. The Flintstones has pretty much become synonymous with the channel, so it understandably continues to appear in rips. Sometimes it's treated as an Obligatory Joke, but not enough to discredit it. This also applies to "Snow halation", to a lesser extent.
    • While the channel aims to mimic the actual GilvaSunner channel with its video metadata, some of the older rips on the channel were inaccurate to GilvaSunner's uploads. Most of these were later fixed in 2017, by way of renames, description changes, and custom thumbnails in the case of a wrong image, but a few innacuracies have been kept - Super Mario 64's "Slider" being listed incorrectly as "Slide" by the real GilvaSunner is one example of a mistake that SiIvaGunner doesn't bother replicating, since "Slider" has one of the most iconic rips and is one of the most re-ripped songs on the entire channel.
  • Grand Finale: What was the finale of Season 1 is originally going to be.
  • G-Rated Sex: Played for Laughs in "Dating Fight! - Undertale" and "Coffee Break Music - Ms. Pac-Man", both of which are soundfont/chiptune arrangements of George Michael's "Careless Whisper" accompanying vaguely erotic Voice Grunting noises.
  • Gratuitous Russian: The "ДА" and "НЕТ" buttons in the rips of "Puzzle Room (Rhythm Code)" from Kirby: Planet Robobot, both the mercifully deleted original and the various remakes/alternate versions, being a Shout-Out to the continue screen of a Russian bootleg version of Felix the Cat and a Vinesauce clip reacting to it and the disturbing "ИГРА ОКОНЧЕНА" screen that followed it. The channel also has a rip titled "нет головоломки?"translation, which is based on a "Puzzle Room" fan remix with the same title.
  • "Groundhog Day" Loop: Had one on Groundhog Day 2017.
    • The Christmas Comeback Crisis's timeline is also described as this by Wood Man in the side story, although it's not perfect, and has "trapped the "real real world" in it", explaining why memes/figments from 2017 & 2018 have proliferated. Only Wood Man is aware of this loop, though. In his words, "It feels like we're moving forward, but at the same time... we're not moving at all."
  • Gruesome Goat: A few of the rips in early 2020 will feature a Jump Scare by a taxidermized baby goat referred to as the "Playboi Carti Standing Goat".
  • Guest Star: There's been times when other YouTubers submitted their own rips to the channel. However, like all the other rippers, they go uncredited.

    H-P 
  • Happy Birthday to You!:
  • Happy Ending Override: The Christmas Comeback Crisis reveals that due to The Voice being a Figment/human hybrid, he was able to survive Chad's MF Like Button by using Wood Man to keep the idea of The Voice alive, thus preserving him as a Figment. He then created a program to bring Figments into the real world, and used it to bring himself and the other Figments alive so he could take over the world.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: It's heavily implied that Chad died after using the MF Like Button to destroy The Voice and restore Snow Halation.note 
  • He's Back!:
    • The very first rip uploaded after Mario being Ret-Gone was undone during the April Fools' 2021 event is Mario saying, "It's-a me, bitch!"
    • SiIvaGunner himself finally woke up in the Christmas Comeback Crisis episode "One Last Chance".
  • Homage:
    • Christmas Comeback Crisis is one to Kirby: Planet Robobot - its plot is relatively the same (an outside force turning a once-natural land into a purely mechanical one, and a small, cute hero(ine) putting an end to it), and the former's videos always cull music from the latter (most notably the prologue, an homage to the game's intro). Also, the latter game's Big Bad makes a few appearances, and his leitmotif turns up far more frequently in the Christmas rips.
    • For the second Cartoon Network Day/[adult swim] night, the penultimate rip was a straight on recreation of the tone and humor of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
  • Hostile Show Takeover:
    • Wood Man took over the channel after the Halloween special ended; however, all he did was shitpost on Twitter before leaving to fight Mega Man.
    • A straighter example is the Voice Inside Your Head returning; he's the Arc Villain of the Christmas special and makes his motives apparent in the channel and video descriptions.
  • House Pseudonym: In the album releases, artists who wanted to remain uncredited are given the name "Barney Rubble". For GSHQVGR Vol. FOUR HOURS!, the house pseudonym was changed to "Principal Seymour Skinner" due to the album being a compilation of reboot songs. On other albums, uncredited artists are similarly given names related to the album's focus.
  • Human Popsicle: This is apparently the explanation for Dat Boi's (a quintessentially 2016 meme) brief channel takeover in 2020, with the rip Game Over - Dat Boi indicating that he was cryogenically preserved in an attempt to bring old memes into the future. The former rip, which serves as the Bad End for the takeover, has Dat Boi suffering from atrophy and hypothermia as a result of him being incompatible in 2020, culminating in his long and painful death. However, the True Ending rip ends with Dat Boi cycling to the tune of "Snow halation" sung by the voice synthesizer Daniel (UK).
  • Hypocrite:
    • In this video, The Voice Inside Your Head proposes the option of merging the Pre-Reboot and Post-Reboot universes without "Snow halation", claiming that while The Flintstones Theme Tune is beloved and fits in well to any song, "Snow Halation" has caused too much discourse among SiIvaGunner's fans due to being "weeb shit" (among other things). A few days later, a rip of video was uploaded featuring the Voice's cover of "GO MY WAY!!". It even opens with the Voice giving a short speech thanking the fans for ensuring that there would be no more idol music on the channel.
    • The Naxx Guyfieri and Doge Mayer commercial has them spout off about how much they love all their fans and are willing to contact the next 100 that call in, but then they specify that they only want female fans and "no ugly chicks".
  • Idiosyncratic Cover Art:
    • Out of the first ten albums, eight of themnote  had covers directly parodying the 7 Grand Dad title screen and/or featuring a character relevant to the album in Grand Dad's jumping pose. After Volume FOUR HOURS! this was mostly dropped, CD Grand Beta from the Season 1 finale being the last album to do this (not counting the bonus image labeled as "alternate" cover art in SUPER GANGSTA BROS. MIXTAPE).
    • Simultaneously released albums, especially the double-released albums, typically have covers that compliment each other:
      • The Rips of Christmas albums have covers showing a simplistic doodle of a character important to the channel against a single-color background: Past had President Haltmann on the cover, Future featured Wood Man, and Present had Smol Nozomi.
      • The volumes for Wii U & for Nintendo 3DS are respectively based on the front and back covers of their collective namesake's A Smashing Soundtrack compilation.
      • Volume C and Volume D are based on the covers of albums that released close to each other at the time, CERTIFIED LOVER BOY and Donda.
      • Volume FF and Volume DQ parody the Japanese covers of the first Final Fantasy I and Dragon Quest I, Square Enix's trademark RPGs.
      • Volume Ruby and Volume Sapphire have cover art parodying the games that started it all, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, complete with "box legendaries" riffing on Grand Dad and Smol Nozomi.
    • The QUALITY ACHIEVED albums depict a different format of music storage against a solid color background: MAXIMUM used a cassette tape, ULTIMATE used a CD, and LIMITLESS used a flash drive.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming:
    • The Highest Quality Rips albums that are lettered rather than numbered take their letter from what is being parodied on the album's cover. Volume V, for example, parodies the art of Cyberpunk 2077 due to sharing a name with the game's protagonist. Even volume, which has no letter attached, still parodies the naming conventions of the Canadian store brand No Name.
    • The album name of "Tutorial (Part 1) - π" follows the titling scheme of the TimmyTurnersGrandDad rip it is parodying, along with arrangements of it on its own channel ("My [X] rip: the [Y] length is the joke").
    • All songs directly relating to the SiIva A.I.'s fight in the SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis have "Quality" in their name: "Quality Assurance" and "Quality Insurance" (from Episode 11) and "Quality Loss" (from his pre-mortem AI Log). A parody of "Quality Assurance" made for "Golden Ratio - e", called "Continuous Quality Interest" on its album, keeps the naming scheme.
  • Immediate Self-Contradiction: Once, after fans sniffed out a "low quality rip", SiIva congratulated the fans on finding it in the comments of another video of his. This exchange resulted:
    kaabiimaster: i thought you only uploaded high quality rips
    SiIvaGunner: I only upload high quality video game rips.
  • The Immodest Orgasm: The sound of "Loud Nigra", which is used as a Running Gag on the channel, is essentially an Exaggerated example of this trope to the absolute extreme.
  • In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Parodied Trope in the rips "Billie Jean (OST Version) - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker" and "Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal but it's Undertale", which both turn Michael Jackson's Moonwalker into "Michael Jackson's Undertale".
  • Inconsistent Spelling: How is SiIvaGunner's name supposed to be spelled/pronounced? The channel seems to deliberately waver on the subject, referring to the channel and character as both "SiIvaGunner" (with a second i) and "SilvaGunner" (with an L). The Greatest Hits Albums used an L up to the 8th volume, then switched to an I. SilvaGunner: Rebooted and The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis use an L, but then for the King for a Day series and CCC side stories since 2019, it's an i (but even those CCC episodes are then referred to with an L in one video's description). In-Universe, The Voice Inside Your Head always refers to it with an L, while Chad Warden says "SEE-vuh-gonn-NAHH" and the King for Another Day Tournament MOJO!! website has all characters using a second i, except for Unregistered HyperCam 2 who sometimes uses an L. This list goes on.
  • Incredibly Long Note:
  • Innocuously Important Episode:
    • The rip of the Love Live! School idol festival song "Futari Happiness (NOZOMI Mix)" (in which SiIvaGunner's "HQripper 7.0" software causes problems with the rip, forcing him to get new ripping software from Loud Nigra) turns out to be connected with the reboot, according to this video*.
    • "Opening Scene - Waluigi's Tacostand" was a fake finale to The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis centering around Waluigi getting a job at El Bean's taco truck and him accidentally creating a portal after putting to much garlic on a taco. While this video was merely a joke at first, the Garlic Taco introduced in it would play a major in future lore videos, with it being responsible for 2B's entire arc on the channel and the Joke-Explainer replica's appearances in the AI Universe.
    • "Last Warning [FILE-22] - Haltmann's Archives" initially seems to be a Bizarro Episode in the Haltmann's Archives series, with it centering around a simple request to Homer Simpson to return his erroneous shipments of donuts instead of documenting key parts of the channel's lore, alongside being seemingly written by an invokedOut of Character Joke-Explainer. During the website portion of Law & Disorder - Lethal Proceedings, this archive would become highly important as one of the key pieces of evidence in Phoenix Wright's trial, with it being used to reveal Junko Enoshima as the true author of the archive and the mastermind behind Monokuma, alongside its actual purpose being to send a message to the latter.
  • Insistent Terminology: SiIvaGunner's videos don't contain "music", "remixes", "mashups", or anything like that. They contain "High Quality Video Game Rips".
  • Interface Spoiler:
    • A lot of commenters correctly predict a "Snow halation" mashup when the video is 4:20 in length (occasionally plus or minus a second due to random errors in rendering).
    • "Oh cool, they uploaded a rip called 'Theme of HOBaRT'! Wait, why is it age-restricted?"
  • Internal Homage: The video uploads and channel banner used during the RIP2 event are parodies of various "Kirbtunes" artworks with characters from the Christmas Comeback Crisis replacing the Kirby characters (except for Meta Knight, who is prominent in both). For example, compare the artwork of "jazzless" with that of "Gourmet Race Fusion Collab".
  • In the Style of: The defining trait of the channel and what sets it apart, more than half of its discography consists of songs In the Style of whatever video game (the other half being the "mashup" remixes), either using audio assets ripped out of the game (for retro games) or tracking down the original instrument software used in making the song (for modern games). Became exaggerated after the early years of the channel, as nowadays they'll do all that is possible to upkeep accuracy to the track being imitated.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: invoked Parodied with regards to the New Super Mario Bros. series in this video. It's ostensibly the overworld theme from New Super Mario Bros. Wii (and uses that game's logo for the thumbnail), but the song itself is the title theme from New Super Mario Bros. 1, with the image being New Super Mario Bros. 2's logo and the playlist link in the description going to that of New Super Mario Bros. U.
  • Jump Scare:
    • At the last second of "Stage Start (Alternate Mix) - Donkey Kong", which is mostly a remix of the main theme of Luigi's Mansion, Loud Nigra comes in, and it's louder than the rest of the video.
    • The lone rip of Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, predictably, is mostly quiet... save for several abrupt, loud soundbites from the channel's Running Gags.
    • Any rip that uses the Green de la Bean meme will most definitely have one of these, usually accompanied with Sensory Abuse to boot. Thankfully, the animation used (featuring a cartoon bean mascot) is a deliberate Nightmare Retardant, plus later appearances have become more telegraphed.
    • A Creepypasta-esque version of this started after the channel returned from its "pause" in early 2017. These rips usually began with an image of a "Egghead", a black boy wearing shorts and a life vest on a white background. The video zooms onto his face, and without warning, shifts to an edited, red-tinted photo of a celebrity with glowing white eyes while playing a loud noise, followed alarm sounds. The image fades away as the rip shifts to a completely unrelated video. Fans aren't sure what this even is, and ultimately these rips ended, although there were two Call Backs to them in early 2019.
  • Kayfabe Music:
    • To a certain extent, since no credit is given on rips and the channel is dolled up to look like it's just some guy archiving Game Music, with no mention of the large amount of people working behind the scenes to make remixes of said music. Downplayed due to the channel description's disclaimer and the request to "please read the channel description" on every video, though it still doesn't quite mention that it's a Bait-and-Switch channel. Averted on the Bandcamp, where all rips are credited to the correct artist.
    • Also an oddly In-Universe example: The Hostile Show Takeover-filled Season 2 did not touch the "bait" part of the Bait-and-Switch, with only the "please read the channel description" part (which was notably not on the real GilvaSunner's channel) changing for each host. Haltmann eventually invoked the kayfabe for Season 3 onwards by setting up the AI to act like the original SiIvaGunner.
  • Kazoos Mean Silliness: A high-quality "Vocal Mix" of "One-Winged Angel" from Final Fantasy VII performed entirely on kazoos.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: invoked The main theme of the "Lost Media Day" event. Most of the rips during the event are based on songs, games and shows that either are not publicly available or weren't publicly available for a long time, such as "Subways of Your Mind" or some of the unreleased games for the Virtual Boy. The event ended with all of its rips privated, bringing the theme to its logical conclusion (although they would be unprivated a few days later).
  • Kid-Appeal Character: Or rather "kid-appeal meme", the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 rips with the "Nick Arcade Prototype" label all use jokes that would be relevant to Nickelodeon's Target Audience of children, such as Big Chungus, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, or Chuck E. Cheese.
  • Knight Templar: Mr. Rental is one as of this rip, wanting to ban all mashups from the channel, regardless of quality.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: With how popular the remixes have become, the Bait-and-Switch intent is expected rather than not (although the channel still trolls listeners with how it surprises them).
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: On July 7th, "A Grand New Era ~Finale~" was uploaded and quickly deleted in favor of an ARG that eventually resulted in the video being reuploaded for good. The only difference between the leaked release (reuploaded on another channel) and the current release is an additional scene before the merging sequence:
    Voice: Oh, and Chad? If you happen to be epileptic, you might want to turn away. The restoration process could get a little messy on the eyes. Unless of course, you happen to have seen this process before. But you certainly couldn't have, right? Let us begin.
  • Leave the Camera Running: During the week between the "Koriball2" and "Koriball2.5" streams, the stream chat was fully functional (despite the stream being offline), leading to this effect. The chat inevitably devolved to a couple people having irrelevant conversations.
  • Left Hanging: The lore thread featuring Mr. Rental is ultimately never finished. However, Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game, gives us some information on how the series was supposed to end.
  • Leitmotif: In almost all of the songs for the fictional game Tate's Journey, Norwegian singer Bambee's song, "Bumble Bee" is implemented one way or another.
  • Letting the Air out of the Band: Done with "The Grand Finale", the "beta mix" of The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy, and "Final Boss", marking the transition into the real songs. The "Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom" rip also does this to The Simpsons's theme.
  • Let's Play: "Let's Play - Super Mario RPG" is presented as one of 7 Grand Dad. At first, the player speaks fondly of the game, but after getting a Game Over on the first level, he Rage Quits, storms off to vent his frustration, and comes back to calmly announce that there will be no more episodes.
  • Living Statue: This is SiIvagunner's Author Avatar, a digitally-modified bust of Antinous.
  • Long List:
    • Rips of Mario Forever usually simply list the console origin as "PC". For the title screen rip, it is apparently on "PC, Windows, Flash, Computer, Personal Computer, Android, Mobile Phone, Samsung Galaxy, Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 2000, Desktop, Linux Mint PC, Mac, HTML5, Mario Platform, Super Windows 8.1, Windows Microsoft 7, Chrome OS, Mobile Android Kitkat, Macintosh Apple Computer, Windows Virtual Box VMWare, Wii U Nintendo Browzer Orygynal, Nintendololo On Afficial 3DS, Linux Super, Ubuntu, Spongebob Stupid in Maryo Simulator (Portable Device)".
    • In the video "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story", when Reader and Jerome are at McDonald's trying to contact Woodman and decide to call someone who can help them, Reader suggests a huge list of characters, naming 80 of them (some of which are repeats, and a majority of them being characters from The Simpsons) before finally realizing they can try Mario. The FanFiction.net version adds NOAKA to the list.
  • Long Song, Short Scene: The rip of Undertale's Power of "NEO" pokes fun at the fact that this song plays for a Zero-Effort Boss.
  • Loophole Abuse: In "Trial - Part 2" of Law & Disorder – Lethal Proceedings, Phoenix Wright circumvents his self-inflicted restriction of only being allowed to show one piece of evidence to prove Junko Enoshima was wrong about everything by having the Joke-Explainer Replica recreate the message Monokuma left on the back of a King For Another Day poster, with Monokuma justifying it because they were merely showing a recreation of a piece of evidence instead of the actual thing.
  • Lucky Seven: As a reference to the "Grand Dad" bootleg game's full title, "Super Mario 7" / "7 Grand Dad", the number seven (as well as seven thousand, AKA seven grand) serves as an Arc Number of SiIvaGunner and his works.
  • Mainstream Obscurity: invoked Discussed in "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel". Chaze the Chat speculates that SiIvaGunner is more well-known than its subscriber count suggests but that people don't subscribe to the channel due to the sheer amount of content released. (SiIvaGunner "only" had 66k subscribers at the time and that doubled pretty quickly after the channel ending announcement, which may lend some credence to this.)
    Chaze: I'm fairly certain that's the reason why we don't have a ton of subscribers, because even though I'm pretty sure we're well-known on the Internet, like, not, like, super well-known, but, like, semi-well-known, we don't have a lot of subscribers because we upload every hour and that's just... people don't want that in their sub box, just ruining their – their videos.
  • Malicious Misnaming: Chad Warden refers to the Voice Inside Your Head as the "Gay Mexican-Ass in My Ass" on multiple occasions.
  • The Man Behind the Man:
    • As revealed in Pokémon Grand Dad Edition, The Voice Inside Your Head was only a conduit for something much more sinister.
    • The whole channel is manned by an internet user named Chaze the Chat, who identified himself in one of the last videos SiIvaGunner posted.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The "Agent Yoru o Yuku" April Fools 2017 rip, which brings together a massive All-Star Cast to perform a huge meme compilation to the tune of "Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga", including the cast of TOME (with LittleKuriboh doing a YGOTAS bit), Kira Buckland, Corina Boettger, and Matt Shipman, with mixing and mastering by The Living Tombstone, among others.
  • Mecha-Mooks: In the Christmas Comeback Crisis, Haltmann augments his legions of Patrol-Bots and Splicers with the Harlequin Force Stringbots, robotic versions of Green de la Bean designed for riot control. Though also equipped with Power Pincers and Rocket Boots, their main offensive weaponry is blasting "U Guessed It" and "No Words" at extremely high volumes.
  • Merged Reality: The Voice Inside Your Head offers Chad Warden the opportunity to create a world where all of SiIvaGunner's traditions before and during the reboot co-exist, with the exception of the divisive "Snow halation". Chad ultimately accepts this, since all he wants is the real SiIva back, but manages to get "Snow halation" back anyway.
  • Mood Whiplash:
  • Mutual Envy: The RE:SPH ARG has this happen between two computer programs. In the AIRTH branch, we learn the SiIva A.I. was jealous of Wood Man's comparative freedom, making movies and interacting with the world the A.I. created while the latter was stuck maintaining the universe's existence in solitude. At the end of the ARG, Wood Man himself admits that he was jealous of the A.I. being able to gain his own will and fight for the sake of his universe, even at the cost of his own life; while Wood Man abandoned everyone in shame because he felt he wasn't up to the task of fixing the CCC.
  • Mythology Gag:
  • Never Trust a Title: Waluigi doesn't actually own the tacostand in the Waluigi's Tacostand rip. The stand is instead owned by El Bean.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The cause of the Continuity Reboot? Chad Warden telling SiIva fans not to dislike-bomb Snow Halation rips, leading them into a discourse.
    • Also the reason The Voice Inside Your Head returns for the Christmas Finale? The user base kept him alive by thinking about him, as that is how figments stay alive.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Sometimes the rips don't play the song suggested in their titles at all, not even at the beginning in order to kickstart the Bait-and-Switch. For example, in "Bob-omb Battlefield (Extended Mix) - Super Mario 64", while the song does sound like it could come from Super Mario 64, at no point does it actually resemble "Bob-omb Battlefield" at all.
  • Ominous Visual Glitch:
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: The Voice Inside Your Head is only known as such, since he believes names are not important. He only provides the nickname to Chad Warden for sake of being addressed by someone.
  • Only Mostly Dead: What happened to The Voice after being destroyed by Chad at the end of the reboot arc. While he died, the idea of him was preserved through Wood Man, thus enabling him to return in the future.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • After the infamous "Harlequin Baby Incident"*, SiIva actually broke character in order to properly apologize to their fans, explain that the now-deleted video was uploaded by one now-fired contributor without permission from the rest of the group, and that tasteless shock humor like that is not supposed to be part of the channel's directive.
    • The Season 1 ending not only features the first contributor (Chaze the Chat) showing his face for the first time on the channel, but also has a number of subtler clues (for one, the title rather directly says the channel is ending — something none of the earlier Series Fauxnales did — and the description is simply a reiteration of SiIva's Catchphrase). This was presumably necessary after the repeated fake-outs, as it was intended to be the end of the channel at the time.
  • One, Two, Three, Four, Go!
  • Orwellian Retcon:
    • The P-R-O-G-R-A-M rip was originally titled "P-R-O-G-R-A-M (OST Version)", as there was another rip of the song that already had the name that functioned as the channel's trailer. After the newer rip became the channel trailer out of fan demand, the "OST Version" subtitle was removed from the video, and the original "P-R-O-G-R-A-M" rip was labelled the "Alternate Mix".
    • Volume 6.66 of the "Highest Quality Video Game Rips" album series was updated to add four new tracksnote  and rename a number of others.note  In addition, three early tracks were moved to later in the albumnote , and "Quest to the Tower of Emblems and Adventures and Time Keys" corrected the "QTQTQk" mispelling of QTQTQ's name.
    • On October 25, 2023, all rips from Homestuck games that were used as an excuse to rip songs from the original comic were changed to be rips of Homestuck directly, and were moved to a new playlist to accommodate them. A YouTube community post lampshaded the change by showing the arm of John Egbert near SiIvaGunner's laptop, referencing his retcon powers near the end of the comic.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: As acknowledged by its description, Stagg Street Arrangements strays from the channel's video game-focused content. It's a cover album where the songs are done In the Style of of certain games, such as Namco's arcade chip and Pokémon soundfonts. The final track, "Everyday Goodbyes", is a live cover, but it incorporates "The Flintstones" and "Snow halation" into its instrumental.
  • Out of Focus: During the first King For a Day tournament, Ajit Pai only got one rip to his name, then got snapped by Thanos and didn't come back until the next tournament. In the second tournament Eminem fares only a little better, having a grand total of five rips and three dual mixes which would have been amazing in the original tourney but is downright pathetic compared to the massive increase in rips per character.
  • Overly Long Gag:
  • Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: On September 15th, 2016 (the 1st anniversary of Undertale's release), Silva uploaded nothing but Mother-related rips. This went on for almost twenty-four hours, seemingly culminating with an actual Undertale "Megalovania" rip that's intentionally underwhelming. But then, thirty minutes later, along comes the simultaneous release of 39 Undertale-related rips — the single biggest release in the channel's history!
  • Painting the Medium:
    • "anouncement.wmv", a video imitating the style of early YouTube, has a broken thumbnail.
    • "abc_123_a - Undertale", which prominently features the Gaster Followers, is intentionally unlisted and can only be found by directly inputting its URL, tying in with how the Gaster Followers can only be encountered in Undertale by modifying the game's hidden Fun Values.
    • "The Voice" behind the reboot occasionally types in an ominous font when he takes control, as seen in these tweets
    • The SiIva AI Logs are portrayed in a format relevant to when it was written. The post-mortem for King for a Day was in the middle of a 4chan thread about leaks for the second tournament, the one taking place close to Curse of the Fallen Angel is written on the event's Google Form, The All-Star Winter Festival log is done as an intermission bumper for the Christmas Comeback Crisis watchalong, and so on.
  • Parody Assistance:
  • Pastiche: The video announcing his April Fools' Day album, anouncement.wmv, imitates the style of countless poorly-made tutorial YouTube videos from the mid-to-late 2000s (including a mashup of several once-popular songs from the era to boot, such as Dreamscape by 0009 Sound System and Bodies by Drowning Pool.)
  • The Power of Love: What "Snow halation" ultimately represents to SiIva and the fans who love it, according to Chad Warden. He also ends the war between him and the Voice Inside Your Head by using the ultimate form of YouTube love: the MF Like Button. This ultimately kills both the Voice and Chad.

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  • Read the Freaking Manual: For rips, the description will say "Please read the channel description" at the bottom.
  • Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Crosses over with Fictional Video Game in this video, a pastiche of the reveal trailer for Sonic Mania depicting a similarly updated version of 7 Grand Dad. It's lampshaded in the fine print at the very end, which remarks that it "won't come out, probably." Then it was announced to be real, but was later cancelled.
  • Red Herring: There's a playlist for Half-Life 3 on the channel. All three of its videos are private.
  • Reference Overdosed: Trying to list all of the different references, musical or otherwise, that are put into his videos would take up most of the page. Sometimes even a single video will qualify. This "high quality rip" of the Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf battle theme in particular is loaded with them. Pause Screen from Wario World goes a million steps further by being 50 minutes worth of Wario nyah-nyah-ing to the melody of hundreds of different songs.
  • Relax-o-Vision: "Bean Bean Pork Bean - MOTHER 3" has the Green de la Bean Running Gag, but here it gets only as far as a bass-boosted "BITCH U" before quickly cutting to soothing nature footage and music in place of the usual Sensory Abuse. The meme text still appears, but slowly and in a cursive font.
  • Retraux: As a channel covering music In the Style of video game soundtracks, this is basically necessary to mimick the styles of retro sound chips. Though note that these are In the Style of, and not just Pastiches of retro game music; since it is usually possible to rip audio assets out of retro games, the channel does this and then reconstructs them in a form editable with modern software.
  • The Reveal: In Pokémon Grand Dad Edition (which part of the reboot finale ARG), the Voice Inside Your Head confesses upon defeat that despite his previous claims, he doesn't really care about what YouTube commenters think, and that he was just a pawn of something much worse.
    Voice:
    A vitriolic... thing. It wreaks its revenge upon the world.
    Or so I think. Truthfully, I don't know what drives it.
    But it is determined.
    Vile and incomprehensible beyond words.
    It channels an ancient evil within it. Can be held accountable for all that is wrong with... everything, really.
  • Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: A Downplayed example, since the channel was always focused on light-hearted, zany humor and rips in the modern day are the same format as those from the past, but some rips from Season 1 could be way edgier or straight-up terrifying than anything present now, with particularly infamous (and, thankfully, removed) examples being the Harlequin Baby Incident, the 9/11 jokes on the event's anniversary, Green de La Bean, and even possible child abuse audio in "Theme Song - Caillou"note . While the more modern incarnation of the channel Season 3 and onwards can still occasionally have less lighthearted content (i.e., some of the events in the Christmas Comeback Crisis, Egghead, farting D. Va, etc.), it definitely isn't as dark or edgy as the earlier incarnation.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Chad Warden is the only person unaffected by the High Quality Reboot, which throws a wrench in The Voice Inside Your Head's plans.
  • Rock Trio: As implied by the channel banner, we had Grand Dad, Nozomi Tojo, and Loud Nigra. However, in September 2016, Loud Nigra was replaced by Tito Dick, forming a new trio. However, as of January 2021, Tito has been removed with no replacement.
  • Rousing Speech: Chad Warden, of all people, delivers one in the "true ending" of the reboot:
    Chad: While I can't stop hate, I can sure as hell encourage love.
  • Running Gag: See here for a list of them.
  • Running Gagged:
    • This video appears to do this to "Snow halation", where "HALATION.SYS" causes a problem, forcing the channel to be shut down and rebooted in High Quality mode.
    • "Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom" sees the apparent end of The Simpsons, a staple of the High Quality Reboot.
    • The Green de la Bean meme was scrubbed from the channel after one of them received a takedown for Community Guideline Violations.
    • "Pork Bean Outta Gas - MOTHER 3" has D.Va failing to fart as she does in the other rips she appears in, giving viewers hope that her dreaded Running Gag was finally coming to an end... only for her to appear in several other rips afterward, farting as much as ever.
    • "YANKIN' FOREVER"'' has Knuckles seal Lady inside the Master Emerald, bringing the Pussy Yankover to an end.
  • Russian Reversal: The description of Type A - Tetris asks the viewer to "Please be read by the channel description."
  • Screamer Prank: While memes such as "Egghead" and "Green de la Bean" resemble this with their Jump Scares, the closest this channel has come to resembling a classic screamer would be "Circus (she said she wanna dance but she dont know how to mix)", which ends with an Extreme Close-Up of a shoebill's face in Chiaroscuro, accompanied by booming static. One of the early Bean rips deleted from the channel, "Coffee Break - Mother 3", also qualifies by being a parody of the K-fee ads.
  • Seduction Lyric: The song "But Not You" from the "King For Another Day" Tournament is a Parody with intentionally awful, lecherous lyrics, sung from the point of view of an incompetent, sleazy Casanova Wannabe; So come on baby please / Let me give you a squeeze. "The Ballads of Naxx and Doge", the video in which the song debuted, also opens with Naxx singing a different song in similar style.
  • Self-Deprecation:
  • Self-Parody:
    • April Fools 2023 (otherwise known as Beta Mix Day) was a day dedicated to the channel ripping its own videos.
    • Season 9 had a simple ARG hosted by Stingy, which he set up in an attempt to have an ARG for himself after hearing about the popularity of Season 8's RE:SPH ARG. Being a little kid, his puzzles are much simpler.
  • Series Fauxnale:
    • On March 30th, right after the announcement of his first album, SiIva uploaded a rip of "Last Goodbye", then proceeded to not upload anything for the entire rest of the day. Many assumed it was the end of the channel (as the video's title and production values implied); however, he made a grand comeback on April Fools' Day.
    • Then his channel got taken down the next week, causing many to fear that SiIva was gone for good...until he announced on Twitter that he would be coming back.
    • History repeated itself on May 30th, when SiIva revealed another Greatest Hits Album and proceeded to reupload "Last Goodbye", upload a new rip of "Good Night" (combined with "Goodbye to a World", which includes lyrics about saying goodbye)... then not uploading anything for several days. However, on June 7th, he released a video announcing the release of "The All New... SiIvaGunner... PACHINKO MACHINE!" He then went back to uploading videos.
    • Christmas 2022 saw the uploads of numerous "Game Over" and "Ending" tracks, followed by a fusion collab for Porter Robinson's "Goodbye to a World". A day later, a video called "My Last Message" was uploaded, with a "credits" list a short bit after. People were confused over whether this was an event, an album announcement, or the channel shutting down again. The channel returned on February 1st, 2023.
  • Sensory Abuse:
    • Occasionally used, particularly whenever Sanic turns up.
    • Ironically, rips featuring Loud Nigra only sometimes fit this trope.
    • In a less traditional sense, the Koriball2 stream fit the bill - it was composed of several songs (some altered, some not) playing over each other, with no attempt to make them harmonize. Predictably, the resultsnote  sound terrible.
    • Rips featuring the "You Just Got Beaned" meme fit this trope, sometimes in more ways than one.
  • Shout-Out: There are enough references and jokes that go beyond the actual music changes that it gets its own page!
  • Siamese Twin Songs:
    • The Flintstones theme and "Snow Halation" are often featured back-to-back within the same rip.
    • "Rhythm Code" (better known as "Puzzle Room") and the "Continue?" music from the Felix The Cat bootleg. When they both appear in a rip, they're treated as a single reference/song rather than two. Downplayed, as the former usually appears on its own. Sometimes "Russkij Pusskij" (linked from "ДА" in the infamous deleted video) is mashed up with either or both.
    • The Wii Shop Channel's theme tends to be associated with "Hotline Bling", thanks to SiIvagunner's team member toonlink's famous mashup of the two songs.
    • "Among Us Trap Remix" and "AirPod Shotty" are often combined, both being rather short Among Us meme songs.
    • Some rips are known as "twin rips" due to the fact that they're often released back-to-back and feature the inverse of each other's jokes.
  • Significant Monogram: Haltmann's Archives designate the main universe that the cast lives in as the Central Canon Continuum, matching with the initials of the Christmas Comeback Crisis.
  • Snicket Warning Label: "One-Winged Angel (Beta Mix) - Final Fantasy VII" loops the track's opening chords for 17 seconds, then has BonziBuddy's Synthetic Voice Actor say, "I'm just kidding. This isn't a blue-balls rip. However, you're going to wish it was." The track then continues, and BonziBuddy says "I warned you" just before the pitch-shifted vocals of Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe" cut in.
  • Softer and Slower Cover: "Candy's Music Store - Donkey Kong 64" is a very laid-back arrangement of "Yakety Sax".
  • Spoiler Title: Averted for the Christmas 2024 ARG. Its official title (The Susie ARG) wasn't revealed until its completion as the title would reveal its central character, which is very important to one of the major characters in lore and said character wouldn't made an appearance until the midway point of the ARG.
  • Stealth Pun:
  • Stock Sitcom Grand Finale: Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD has Grand Dad, Nozomi, and Loud Nigra walking through a Continuity Cavalcade, with the final location being the tower from Tengami, the channel's standard header image. Nozomi and Loud Nigra continue walking, but Grand Dad stops to look up.
  • String Theory: The channel banner during the Law & Disorder takeover is this, playing off the mystery theme of the event.
  • Stylistic Suck:
    • The channel itself is meant to be an inversion of this; as Chaze the Chat explained here, he was one of many people who had grown sick of YouTube users churning out bad content while pretending to be LittleKuriboh, so Chaze eventually decided to create GiIvaSunner to bring unto YouTube an impersonator who actually produced good content for once.
    • "anouncement.wmv" is made in the style of early YouTube videos, including the usage of Windows Movie Maker and Hypercam; the word "announcement" is even misspelled in the title!
    • The "Alternate Mix" of "Megalovania" is a terrible-sounding mashup with the Space Jam theme... until 1:04, at which point the music turns into a Waters Of Megalovania mix that sounds much better (transitioning with an audio clip of Filthy Frank saying "You just got pranked, bro!", no less).
    • The Mr. Rental rip features a crudely-animated recreation of the Flintstones-themed Lead In for an episode of The Simpsons.
    • Menu - Garfield is not actually a song, but instead an "animated" homage to a similarly-styled animation, Garfielf.
    • Fountain of Dreams - Super Smash Bros. Melee lazily edits a multitude of the channel's running gags over the original song. At the same time.
  • Sudden Downer Ending: "The Grand Finale (Alternate Mix)" from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, one of the last rips before the true conclusion of the reboot, ended with all hope of the old gags returning dashed, with the community's actions having supposedly led to Chad Warden's death.
    "SiIvaGunner is dead, and it's all because of you. It's all... because... of you! You fucked up!pu dekcuf uoY !uoy fo-"
  • Super-Deformed: "Smol Nozomi," while uncommonly seen on the channel proper, is almost always seen as the embodiment of Snow Halation on the channel. "Smol" variants of other idols from the series have also been featured on rare occasions, most often on their respective birthdays.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Circus (not the one from deltarune)" is a Toby Fox rip, as the video description admits, though not from Deltarune—instead, it's "ASGORE" from Undertale (or rather, BotanicSage's notorious remix With Lyrics, "ASSGORE").
  • Synthetic Voice Actor:
  • Take That!: Has enough for its own page.
  • Take That, Audience!:
    • After the comments section erupted into a war between people with Dedede and Peridot avatars (eventually ending in favor of the former), a Stylistic Suck rip of Dedede's theme from Super Smash Bros. Brawl was uploaded (and subsequently deleted).
    • The entire JOEJOE'S BIZZAERE JOJOKE album is a jab at people requesting rips from JoJo, most apparent with the way it was disguised as a proper album.
    • Another jab at the comments section comes from "Overworld" from Super Mario Bros. 2, which consists of goofy text-to-speech voices reading off some of the dumber comments.
    • The overwhelmingly negative audience response to the Pussy Yankover of April 2021 prompted the release of "Circus (Fuck You Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's", a mashup of Yankin' and Cabinet Man with a title that made it clear yes, the team were aware of the reaction to the takeover, and no, they weren't going to stop.invoked
    • The original Green de la Bean rips were taken down from the channel due to community flagging, and this was rather bitterly referenced in a couple of rips uploaded to it over the next few days. "Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl" was remade with the Bean Jump Scare (following two minutes of dead air) replaced with the Continue and Game Over screens from the game, and the image of the Bean on the final screen being grayed out with its catchphrase replaced by the message, "You've lost something precious." The incident was also the subject of the musically unaltered rip of "An Ending - Undertale" (removed for unrelated reasons), in which SiIvaGunner sarcastically congratulates viewers for having made the channel "safe":
      * And all you had to do to make it happen...
      * ...was murder my son and put me at risk of dying.
      * Thanks.
      * You friccin moron.
  • Title Drop: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czlu1jr7e1c "Raft Ride (Live Version) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening"]] is footage of the SiivaGunner team at MAGFest, playing a rendition of the infamous Raft Ride theme on kazoos. It ends with the group deciding on this name for the video.
  • Toilet Humor: In early fall 2019, there was an infamous serious of rips involving audio (and sometimes video) of a D. Va cosplayer yelling "Nerf This!", slapping her butt, and farting loudly (the farts are edited in from another video). These rips eventually ended, though there occasional references to them today.
  • Tournament Arc: The "King For A Day Tournament" from Summer 2018 was one of these for the channel, where viewers voted between sixteen potential rip sources to see which "fighter" would take over the channel for a day. A second one occurred in Fall 2019, the "King For Another Day Tournament", which doubled the roster from sixteen to thirty-two contestants.
  • Troll: What GiIvaSunner was before his pranks gained a fandom of their own.
  • Uncommon Time: Songs with uncommon time signatures are occasionally ripped on the channel, such as "Strong One (Masked Man)" which is 29/16.
  • Un-person: After March 31, in accordance with the delisting/discontinuation of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros. 35, SiIvagunner privated almost all of their Mario-related rips and uploaded new rips with all traces of Mario erased (including his name in the logos) and iconic music distorted beyond recognition. The comments sections of said videos all followed suit, all deliberately acting like he never existed in the first place, though still feeling like something is missing.
  • "Untitled" Title: One of the many rips of "Circus" from Five Nights at Freddy's 1 is titled "Circus ()".
  • Urban Legend of Zelda: invoked
  • Viewers Are Geniuses: Some rips have esoteric punchlines, which leads to the Running Gag of commenters being a part of the "'I don't get the joke' club". This meme can also be used sarcastically for rips with extremely obvious punchlines.
  • Villain Ball: The Voice Inside Your Head merges both the original and reboot universes without Snow Halation, then makes Chad his partner in running SiIvaGunner Enterprises. Unfortunatley for the Voice, Chad uses his new position to bring Snow Halation back himself.
  • Villain Song: DK Rap (Anniversary Edition), also known as "The Snow Halation Sucks Rap", serves as one for the Voice Inside Your Head, outlining his absolute hatred of Snow Halation and "weeaboo shit" as well as promoting his own memes. While mainly a corruption of the DK Rap, The Voice joins in and drops a few lines himself before the song abruptly shifts into Snow Halation, causing him to angrily cut it short.
  • Visual Pun: The cover of Greatest Hits Volume 3 & Knigra shows SiIva's avatar ripping a piece of paper in half.
  • We Can Rule Together: After the universes have merged, the Voice Inside Your Head offers Chad Warden to help guide the Grand New Era together as the Grandest Dads, a proposition Chad accepts. This turns out to be a big mistake on the Voice's part.
  • Welcome to Corneria: SiIva's usual response to comments that question his (high-quality) rips: "I only upload high quality video game rips."
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Voice Inside Your Head. He booby trapped the High Quality Ripping software SiIva bought from the Nigra store so that he could initiate the High Quality Reboot. He did this to create a universe devoid of the infighting Chad Warden started concerning the act of dislike bombing "Snow Halation" rips. Later, he offers Chad the return of all the channel's old memes at the cost of the removal of Snow Halation to prevent further discourse, with Chad ultimately accepting, and keeps true to his word, even allowing Chad to join him.
    • Although his position as a well-intentioned extremist hasn't changed, it's revealed that the Voice ultimately wasn't the cause of the reboot in the Pokémon ROM hack, but he's been trying to protect the channel from a bigger threat that did cause the reboot.
  • Wham Episode:
    • This "Snow Halation" rip, which ended up starting the Continuity Reboot and initiating the channel's first plotline. (Also, this rip hammers in that SiIva is Not Himself, since it takes a Flintstones remix and replaces it with Family Guy.)
    • This video, which finally elaborates on what happened to SiIva and reveals that someone was behind it.
    • A stream held on August 14th, 2016 had SiIvaGunner declare that mashups are no longer considered high quality, accompanied by a video of Mr. Rental going on a rampage against mashups.
    • "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel", the video that confirmed that SiIvaGunner was coming to a close.
    • Prologue - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis. A pyramid headed figure breaks into SiIva's home, uploads something onto his computer allowing him to create robots, creates a futuristic city, destroys a ship with Grand Dad, Nigra, and Meta Knight, and captures every meme except Nozomi. The person responsible for this? THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD
    • One particular audiolog reveals that Haltmann has apparently been working on Inspector Gadget, who proceeds to attack the voice.
    • In the announcement for the new album "Inspector Gunner", the Gadgetini Bot breaks down due to a DMCA, and Haltmann takes the reigns.
    • For King For Another Day, the prelude to the Grand Finals match. Instead of announcing the final battle between DJ Professor K and Mariya, the Crown speaks, revealing its sentience. It announces that the tournament will last for an eternity and, to achieve that end, hijacks Unregistered Hypercam 2's body, creating a final boss where the two finalists must team up with all the other defeated contestants to overwhelm Unrestrained Hypercam 2 and the Crown.
    • The end of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival. Wood Man and Joke Explainer 7000 reached the meteor that caused the nuclear winter. And after many failed attempts to analyze it, and looking at Geno's past memories of him touching the meteor, Wood Man comes to a conclusion that the meteor and him shares a connection: they do not belong in this world. And with a final message given to Joke Explainer, Wood Man touches the meteor, with hopes of fixing the nuclear winter, and along with it, disappeared in the universe. The video after the two months hiatus following the credits to the festival is a CCC side story that reveals Wood Man's fate: He's fine, but the guilt of him goofing around in a parallel universe and not helping his friends back in Grandiose City has taken a toll on him, thus he leaves the channel entirely to find a solution to save them.
    • After 6 whole years, the Christmas Comeback Crisis finally returns with episode 11, and the wait was worth it. The episode opens with the heroes exploring the Voice's Tower, as they reunited with Haruka, she gave them the whereabouts of all captured figments, letting them to free the figments captured in the prologue, including Grand Dad himself. After that, the heroes are forced into Haltmann's lab, where the CEO reveals his true plans with his latest creation, the SiIva A.I., and attempts to dispose the heroes with it. Eventually, they managed to defeat them both, sutting down the SiIvaGunner replica as well, leaving its core, which bears the same shape and color as the meteor that caused the Christmas 2022 Nuclear Winter Festival. Santa gives Haltmann a chance of redemption, only for him to get brutally murdered by the voice, and because of his status a figment, everyone including Santa himself forgets about him. The heroes ride the elevator one more time to finally confront The Voice, with the previously captured figments joining in the fight as well. In particular Grand Dad managed to hit The Voice in the face, prompting him to respond with shooting a giant laser beam in return, seemingly killing him. But he will soon learn that this is a fatal mistake: Not only did Grand Dad survive the blast, the damage done to him had awakened a powerful being who had a strong connection with the injured figment: SiIvaGunner himself, after sleeping for the past 6 seasons, finally wakes up.

  • Wham Line:
    • Halfway through This video, The Voice Inside Your Head proposes a Merged Reality with memes from both before and after the reboot, and the video appears to be the end of the reboot (especially since The Voice admits he's getting tired of the current universe and starting to miss the old one)... until The Voice reveals that this new reality will exclude Snow Halation.
    • "Hahahahaha... I'm back." - The Voice In Your Head
    • "You can shut up now. I'm always on duty!"
    • "No matter. The Voice is gone anyway."
    • "Game Over - Dat Boi" is a darkly comedic rip sung by by UK-Daniel that references the famous "dat boi!" song, but changes the lyrics to be about Dat Boi being brought into the future, but ultimately suffering and dying. But the rip has a very unexpected ending, especially given that it relates to a plotline the channel didn't touch for quite some time.
    Frog: (starts croaking)
    UK Daniel: Aaaaaah-
    (SPLAT)
    The Voice: Yuck. If there's one thing I hate more than anime, it's frogs.
    You thought I was fucking dead? You were wrong. Here comes Rental.
    • The end of Goodbye to a World Fusion Collab has the SiIva A.I. sing the last part of the song, and then glitches out in the same way the song does. However, the error message reveals this ain't mere glitches to the system...

    ERROR
    [COMMENCING A.I PROTOCOL: SHUTDOWN]
    The Voice: The fact of the matter is; the harbinger remembers.
    Chad Warden remembers.
  • Wham Shot: The reward for completing the first arc of RE:SPH ARG is a Haltmann's Archives file that details the President Haltmann's ultimate goal to reunite with his daughter Susie. After the file ended a third-party started speaking, who then reveals themselves to be none other than Susie Haltmann.
  • Who Writes This Crap!?: DK Rap (Reprise) ends on this note.
    "What the fuck? I have not seen Silence of the Lambs. This joke isn't funny. Just bring back Grand Dad."
  • Wrap It Up: Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game, posted after the channel's end, serves to tie up a major loose end in the channel's lore.
  • Xylophones for Walking Bones: While "Legendary Ghost" from Cuphead is played on xylophone, it accompanies a ghost rather than a skeleton. SiIva's high-quality rip, however, contains the melody of "Spooky Scary Skeletons," making it an example of this trope.
  • You Keep Using That Word: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, SiIva pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
  • YouTube Poop: Occasionally.
  • YouTuber Apology Parody: The channel has posted several of these, mostly referencing the serious apology video produced by the channel after the "Puzzle Room" incident in 2016:


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(Spoilers) Haltmann's Demise

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 11 OF THE CHRISTMAS COMEBACK CRISIS! After the defeat of Haltmann and The SiIva AI by our heroes' hands, Santa chews Haltmann out and gives him a chance to change his ways by joining them in the fight against the Voice. Haltmann seemingly accepts Santa's offer... only for the Voice to execute him with electricity as payback for his betrayal.

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